Curtain-fixture



Patented May 23, I899.

W. C. SCHRAMM.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

(Application filed Feb. 24, 1899.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ILLIAM C. SOHRAMM, OF BARTON, MARYLAND.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 625,422, dated May 23, 1899. Application filed February 24, 1899. Serial No- 706,'733. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. SOHRAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barton, in the county of Allegany and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain novel improvements in combined curtain pole and window-shade fixtures; and the object is to provide a simple, inexpensive, convenient, and effective device of this character.

XVith this object in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined curtainpole and shade fixture embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the adjustable base-boards. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

1 and 2 represent the base-boards, the meeting ends of which are formed with parallel tongues 1 and 2 lying in the same plane and having a sliding engagement With each other, the tongue 1 carrying a clip 8, which extends downward across the face of the two tongues, its lower end 8 being turned inwardly to engage the longitudinal slot 2 in the tongue 2, and its rear end 3 is turned downwardly to prevent the clip becoming detached from the tongue. A similar clip at is fixed in the tongue 2, and its upper end 4 passes through a slot 1 in the tongue 1, and its end 1 turned upward, as in the first instance. This construction permits the base-boards to be adjusted with reference to each other, so as to conform to the width of the window-frame, and when so adjusted the thumb-screws a a may be tightened up to secure the base-boards in their adjusted position.

Near the outer end of the base-board 1 is formed a groove or recess 5, one of the walls 5 of which is right angular, and the opposite wall 5 is dovetailed to receive the dovetailed edge 6 of the body portion (3 of the shadebracket 6, and a corresponding groove or recess 7 is formed in the base-board 2. One of the walls 7' is formed at a right angle to the face of the board, and the other wall 7 is dovetailed to receive the correspondinglyforined edge 8 'of the body portion 8' of the shade-bracket 8.

The bracket 8 is formed with an car 8 provided with an orifice 8 to receive the cylindrical journal of the usual self-acting shade roller, and the corresponding bracket 6 is formed with a similar ear 6 having the usual rectangular notch 6 to receive the rectangu= lar end of the spring-actuated shaft of the shade-roller.

The upper horizontal edges of the brackets 6 and S are each provided with a rectangular notch 9 to receive the rectangular ends 10 10 of the bowed curtain-pole 12, the free ends of which terminate in the ornamental end pieces 13 13.

In suspending the curtain from thebowed curtain-pole the curtain is held away from the shade and a greater artistic effect is produced in the display of the curtain.

In inserting the brackets in their respective grooves the beveled or dovetail edge is first inserted in the groove and the bracket proper turned at a right angle to the baseboard and the curtain-pole then placed in the brackets, thus effectively securing them in place.

The accompanying drawings show my in= vention in the best form now known to me; but many changes in the details might be made within the skill of a good mechanic Without departing from the spirit of my in vention as set forth in the claims at the end of this specification.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. The adjustable base boards, provided with the vertical parallel grooves, each of which is formed with a right-angular and a parallel undercut wall, the brackets mounted in said groovesand provided with correspondingly-formed ears, and having a rectangular notch formed in their upper edges, and a curtain-pole formed with rectangular ends to engage said notched brackets, substantially as described.

2. The base-boards 1 and 2, formed with In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM G. SOHR AMM.

Witnesses WILLIAM SNYDER, HENRY SOHRAMM. 

